Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-02-04

500, 0JO. The average yield per acre is forty
two bushels.
The non prohIbltionIsts In the United States
senate only used four dozen corkscrews during
the past year
The list Of New York society" people who
now write for the press or the magazines foots
up thiry-two.
New York city needs TWENTY-FIVE new
schools, all above the high school grade, cost
ing over q, 10000
Out OF the twenty-five babies born in Doug
las county, Oregon, since the lst OF January,
all but two girls.
Exactly 100 lives have been lost so far in the
construction Of the new Croton aqueduct
near New York city.
1t is suggested by The Buffalo Courier that
passes be given to every theater going woman
who will dof her hat
Near TyendInaga, Canada, one day last
week. was killed hog that weighed 80
pounds when dressed
Fifty colored men hold clerkships In the de-
partments at Washington at salaries ranging
from 8, 900 TO 800 per year
A widow at Oakland, Cal. has sued local
paper because the reporter said her husband
had gone to a happier home"
Telephoning between New York and Phila-
delphia is now as easy a. II was between points
n block apart flew months ago.
Its estimated that it will cost about "a, 0o0,-
900 to establish the boundary line between
Alaska and British Nor,h America.
Fifteen thousand Of the forty-eight thous-
aud votes cast in the recent election In Wash
ington territory were cast by women.
HIP. Forwood, the insolvent cotton mer-
chant OF Louisville. has been adjudged insane.
His brother was once lord mayor OF Liverpool.
Twenty five years ago there was only one
Catholic church in Cincinnati o.; now there
are twenty, with forty eight thousand mem
bers.
J. B. Phillips stole a hog near Palestine,
Tex, one day recently and Monday was SEN
fenced 70 two years in the pententiary for tho
offense
A London tailor has invented dress coat
and waistcoat comb ned, by which means the
coat is kept in place much better than wnen
separate.
Burchard A. Hayes an attorney Of Toledo,
the eldest son Of the ex-prcsideut, will next
week be married 10 Miss Mary ~ sherman, OF
Norwalk, OHIO.
One hundred Swedish servants, through
agents, have secured situations ia Orange
county Florida, aud are expected over in the
next steamship
Farmers in scott county, Kentucky, are con-
slderaby Interested over hemp-stalk ten
inches in circumference, which was raised in
that region during the past season.
On Cedar creek, Georgia, lives an octogena-
Il 1ar 20 nd aft har
he, his wife, nor either Of his seven daughters
has ever ridden a mile on the cars.
An English dead beat has just left New
York city for home, leaving every member OF
a club into which he was introduced by letter
BY foreign nobleman his creditor.
Large numbers Of perslmmon logs are being
shipped 70 the north from Norfolk, Va, 10 be
manufactured into shoe lasts, for which they
are SAID TO be particularly adapted.
In the library OF Gould, the Portland Me,
defaulte- which was sold at auction few
( DAYS ago, was found a weilthumhed volume
! called Prison Life and Reelection"
/ In Louisville, Ky., a man, who recently ran
as candidate for the common council, was so
! little known that when be appeared at the
polls his opponents tried TO buy his vote.
! Judge Peckham, OF the New FORK supreme
court has decided that the repeal OF the
| Broadway railroad charter constitutional,
and that the mortgages are lein on the prop
erty.
Black gros grain wraps, lined and trim
med with fur. short behind and half-long
| in front. are traced for introduction TO the
princess OF Wales.
At the masquerade ball in Adm last
week. st. Jacobs Oil took the first prize
! Nothing strange in this as il is highly
priced in every family where used-es-